Pentester Academy - Log File Analysis

HDRips | MP4/AVC, ~264 kb/s | 1446x762 | Duration: 00:40:40 | English: AAC, 128 kb/s (2 ch) | + Work Files | 16,9 GB

Genre: Development / Programming

This course teaches students how to analyse logs effectively using tools already available to you. The students will be taught how to analyse logs using Python, Powershell and Bash. Using real world examples, you will see how suspicious activity can be inferred from the logs by looking at various parameters.

Students will be introduced to analysis of Apache, Cisco, IIS and Windows event logs.

A non exhaustive list of topics covered:

*Analysing Cisco and Apache logs using Linux Commands

Using cat and grep to get important information

How to use awk to analyse logs

Using sed, sort and uniq to extract important metrics

*Using Python for Log Analysis

Basics of Python

Reading logs using Python

Parsing read logs.

*Utilising Powershell for Windows Log Analysis

Basics of Powershell

Dumping Event Logs with Powershell

Log Analysis with Powershell

*Intrusion Analysis using Powershell

Looking for suspicious data in logs

Searching for important keywords in event logs